Home County students win $55,000 apiece in scholarship money

Decatur Daily Democrat:

Winning $111,000 in 73 minutes?

Two high school students from Adams County did that on April 29 in a state auto skills repair contest sponsored by the Ford corporation and American Automobile Association.

Billy Gilson, a senior at South Adams, and Jacob Bergdall, a junior at Adams Central, were the winning two-man team that defeated nine other tandems in the event at Indianapolis.

They performed repairs on a 2012 Mustang in just 73 minutes and each won $55,000 in scholarship money to attend a technological school, plus $800 each in tools.

That comes to $111,600.